The Office of Rail & Road has gone into the ghost train business. A 7 a.m. Avanti train on the West Coast line will set off from Manchester with just a crew aboard and head for London on every weekdays.
The ORR’s excuse for this waste of public money is that it needs a train which can be paused or diverted in the timetable in case there is trouble elsewhere on the route.
UPDATE: The ORR has been given a good booting by the Transport Sec. and the ghost trains will be allowed to carry passengers now.
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